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The Video Game is an American television game show that aired from 1984 to 1985. It was created by JM Production, and debuted shortly after the cancellation of their earlier game show Starcade. [1] The Video Game was taped at Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park in Valencia, California.
One 1969 episode featured young comedian George Carlin, who seldom participated in the game show circuit. Carlin, however, was a close friend of host Jim McKrell, who worked with Carlin in 1959–60 at Fort Worth radio station KXOL. Snapshots of the video from this episode can be found online.
Host Jack Barry and contestant Charles Van Doren on the set of Twenty-One in 1957. NBC took the show off the air after the scandals made headlines; its production was dramatized in the 1994 film Quiz Show. The 1950s quiz show scandals were a series of scandals involving the producers and contestants of several popular American television quiz ...
Starcade was produced by the JM Production Company to air on WTBS and later syndication by Turner Program Services (TPS). Starcade was the first video arcade game show, and set the blueprint for similar game shows like Video Power, Nick Arcade, and Arena.
Bedroom – the players must remove game pieces, dig through a toy chest, or carefully remove picture frames or plastic coat hangers to get the pieces. Kitchen – the players will need to remove the pots and pans or dishes in the kitchen, dig through the groceries, remove the dirty dishes, copper pipes, carefully remove the pieces from jars of ...
Photo cred: Getty. More popular than the game show itself was the show's host, Anne Robinson. Robinson quickly became the no nonsense host, and was dubbed the Queen of Mean for her iconic phrase ...
If either asked to do so, the contestant in the lead would be declared the winner. The game was automatically stopped after five rounds. The winner of the game received $500 for each point of the margin of victory (e.g., a 21–15 win paid $3,000). Whenever a game ended in a tie, the stakes were raised by $500 per point and a new game was played.
Especially in the United States, game show hosts have generally been conservative or libertarian in their political beliefs. Reasons for this include many of the hosts' rural origins (early television personalities were expected to have natural General American English accents, which were most prominent in the Midwest) and the merit-based nature of the game show format.